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COPIES OF ORDERS. 



In performing the above orders you will act as you may consider 

 best for their most effectual execution, keeping in mind that the 

 most desirable part is the survey of the Magdalen Channel. 



From our experience^ last year, of the weather during the 

 months of April and May, I am in hopes of your being able to 

 work during those months, with success ; but should you meet 

 with bad weather, you will be most careful in not exposing your 

 people unnecessarily to the severity of the climate. 



Upon detaching the Adelaide you will appoint Lieutenant Sky- 

 ring to the superintendence of the service upon which she is sent, 

 giving Lieutenant Graves instructions to that effect accordingly. 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) Phillip Parker King, 



Commander and Senior Officer. 



His Majesty's surveying sloop Beagle, Port Famine. 



Sir; April 19, 1829. 



In obedience to the orders I have received from Commander 

 Phillip Parker King, senior officer of the Expedition for the survey 

 of a part of South America, it is my direction that you proCiCed 

 immediately, in the Adelaide schooner, to survey as much of the 

 Magdalen Channel and the Strait or Channel of Santa Barbara as 

 you find practicable at this season of the year. 



If, in the execution of this service, you should find the season 

 too much advanced to proceed without much risk to the vessel, or 

 exposing yourself and the men to much bad weather, you will 

 give up the design, and hasten to Port Gallant. 



Should the Beagle not be in Port Gallant at your return, and 

 no letter left for you in a bottle, you will wait there one week, 

 and then return to Port Famine. At all events, you will endea- 

 vour to rejoin the Beagle before the first week in June has ended. 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) Robert Fitz-Roy, 

 To Lieut. Wm. Geo. Skyring, Commander. 

 His Majesty's sloop Beagle. 



